large tropical tree that produces edible pods (Leucaena diversifolia, Crescentia alata) (see Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
huāx
IPAspelling:
wɑːʃ
Frances Karttunen:
HUĀX-IN large tropical tree that produces edible pods (Leucaena diversifolia, Crescentia alata) / cierto árbol que da unas como algarrobas comestibles, de tierra caliente (C), guaje (T) In C, Z, and X the vowel of the item is long. In T it is consistently short. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 82.